If their PSUs are made to their specs and similar quality to the competition, they'll differentiate with legendary customer service. The only thing worst than having expensive hardware fail is the prospect of having to RMA the thing, but EVGA makes that entire process virtually painfree and effortless.

They also have two major establish product lines that give them natural inroads to this PSU market with their Nvidia GPUs and Intel motherboards. I know fans of EVGA have been asking for EVGA PSUs for some time, but they are a fickle and demanding bunch so the quality has to be there or they won't bite. Hopefully EVGA delivers.

Looks like a monster PSU though, everything you need to run 4-way SLI on one of their 4-way boards.Reply

You mean the same thing that nearly every computer hardware company does? Newegg makes you pay the return shipping and so does Logitech. I agree it is kind of a silly business practice. Why spend $X00 on a killer video card to have it go bottom up on you, just so you can keep it and not pay the $10 return shipping on principle?

EVGA may use the reference design but they have some of the best warranties and best support in the industry. I for one hate the fact that I can't buy more EVGA stuff. Reply

Products fail, not sure what to tell you but to say their warranty practices are somehow deficient is a joke. Honestly PC hardware, and graphics cards in particular have some of the most generous warranties in ANY technology industry.

Where else are you going to find lifetime warranties on high ticket items like this. Break your iPhone out of warranty? Tough luck. Your monitor or HDTV goes belly up after the 1-2 yr warranty expires? Not only are you paying for shipping, you're paying to get it repaired too.

In any case, they have the best warranty standards in the industry, in a sector of the industry that is far better than any other tech industry.Reply

I don't see how you could possibly say EVGA sticks to reference designs when they have a slew of mainboards and even GTX 580s that, well, aren't reference designs by any stretch of the imagination.

Every manufacturer makes "reference design" products. Pretty much every video card manufacturer will make products that are slight variations on the reference design. EVGA certainly does that, but to say or imply that's all they do is inaccurate.

In actuality, all Nvidia and ATI cards are reference at launch. Only when Nvidia and ATI go "virtual" can cards be something other than reference. This is when Nvidia releases BOM's, schematics, etc. But by then, new cards are no longer new. You can make higher performance or cheaper versions of the card and they may sell well, but those who like to buy bleeding edge products have moved on, therefore they have the impression that most, if not all, products are reference.Reply

Bit of a problem here. According to code, a standard US 15A line should draw no more than 1440W. Assuming the thing passes 80% with flying colors (all the way up to 1500), a 1500W supply will draw 1800W (conceivably 15.5A, even assuming perfect power factor correction), and better trip the breaker.

You know you have gone to far when it is time to rewire the office outlet for you computer. Time to learn how to wire a relay and plug two decent power supplies into separate breakers.Reply